Tag: Lent

  • March 3, 2025

Revisiting the Three Pillars of Lent

When our New Year’s resolutions fail, do we give them another go at Lent? Is Lent just a...
  • February 22, 2024

Bishop Dolan encourages stations during Lenten Journey
  • March 7, 2023

Pope to open Lenten prayer, penance service at Rome parish

Pope Francis will open a Lenten prayer and penance initiative at a Rome parish March 17 rather than...
  • March 7, 2023

Vatican II’s openness is needed in today’s church, cardinal tells Curia

The Second Vatican Council was a "prophetic initiative" to compensate for the church's refusal to engage with society,...
  • February 24, 2023

Make time this Lent to love the excluded, defenseless, despised, pope says

The call to make sacrifices for others out of love remains urgent as so many people continue to...
  • February 17, 2023

Pope: Synodal and Lenten journeys require effort, sacrifice, focusing on God

Tradition is a source of inspiration for seeking out new paths to take with Jesus and for avoiding...
  • April 12, 2022

Family crosses: Joy, new life can be found by facing problems together

People following the Stations of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum this year will find along the Via Dolorosa...
  • March 21, 2022

Three ways to live Lent as a family

Growing up Protestant, Lent just was not much of a thing in my home. I saw banners for...
  • March 7, 2022

True freedom found in sharing, not possessing, pope says

Temptation's seductive proposals of happiness and freedom can lead one to being enslaved by the desire to possess...
  • February 17, 2022

Lent 3.0: Third Lent in pandemic offers chance for spiritual reset, healing

Lent, the spiritual season of prayer and sacrifice, has an extra pull to it this year because once...